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Mark
Pilkington looks at two formerly secret documents, published six
decades apart, that reveal the methodologies of psychological
manipulation and deception practised by American and British
intelligence services. “The Art of Deception, Training for a New
Generation of Online Covert Operations”, an internal presentation for
the UK’s GCHQ, was leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden earlier this
year, while “The Exploitation of Superstitions for Purposes of
Psychological Warfare” was published by USAF’s RAND Corporation in 1950.

The similarities between the two papers demonstrate that while the
world we live in has changed dramatically in the intervening years, the
human mind, and the techniques for manipulating it, have remained very
much the same; both papers discuss the exploitation of belief systems
and fortean phenomena.

Thursday, 24 April 2014

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Battersea, 1956: A poltergeist outbreak
is fantastical enough, but a poltergeist that learns
to communicate details of
an apparent previous life? And a life that begins to sound like that of the Lost
Dauphin of Revolutionary France? Studying the poltergeist’s claims researcher
Harold Chibbett was forced to wonder: could ‘Donald’
really be the spirit of the Louis-Charles, tragic son of Marie Antoinette?